Calvin Harris - Acceptable In The 80s (Columbia)

THE title isn’t all that promising, when you consider what WAS acceptable in the '80s – puffball skirts, legwarmers, Thatcher and Reagan, dado rails and Gary Wilmot. But this cut from Calvin Harris’s forthcoming debut album, somewhat misleadingly titled ‘I Created Disco,’ is actually much more fun than all of those.

THE title isn’t all that promising, when you consider what WAS acceptable in the '80s – puffball skirts, legwarmers, Thatcher and Reagan, dado rails and Gary Wilmot.

But this cut from Calvin Harris’s forthcoming debut album, somewhat misleadingly titled ‘I Created Disco,’ is actually much more fun than all of those, even having been created on an old Amiga computer more suited to playing Manic Miner on.

Mirrorball

Sounding at times like Bryan Ferry fronting the Scissor Sisters underneath the giant mirrorball on Blackpool promenade, this low-fi but high-camp Dumfries boy might just have something.

Let’s just hope the '80s revival doesn’t extend to Liverpool winning the league and FA Cup every year again.